Quality of life of the beneficiaries of the government???s bolsa fam??lia program: a case study in Mateiros/TO/Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: SENNA, MARY L.G.S.
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: AQUINO, AFONSO R., DUTRA, VERUSKA C., TOLENTINO, CARLOS H.C., WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, 18th
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do IPEN
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/27405
• topic: quality of life; government policies; financing; environmental effects; environment; environmental impact statements; sustainability; communities; ecosystems

The quality of life index, despite elucidating many discussions, the conceptual subjectivity of the term does not show precision, and consequently, many researchers seek to develop methods aiming to measure this concept, bringing it to a more concrete approach. In this study, the quality of life index method was used to analyze the population of Mateiros, Tocantins, Brazil for quality of life. After data collection, it was compared the quality of life index between the population and the group of beneficiaries of the Brazilian government assistance program Bolsa Fam??lia (Family Allowance). Some of the people interviewed receive financial aid from the federal government program Bolsa Fam??lia (22%). Comparisons were made among the final score of the quality of life index of the Mateiros population and the following factors: Gender, age, education, those working or not with tourism and those who receive or do not receive the Bolsa Fam??lia. It was observed that only the factor, Bolsa Fam??lia (p-score 0.0138), shows an association with quality of life improvement, noticing that those who have financial aid had a higher quality of life improvement than the rest of the population. It was concluded that, government assistance has shown a decisive element on the enhancement of Mateiros population quality of life, indicating that similar actions should be maintained.